The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.